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1110
William Edmund King 8 [m]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born November 25th, 1876 No Image On File
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Parents
Father [697sa]Edmund George King 7 No Image On File
Mother [697]Emily Florella (Blish) King 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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William Edmund KingEdmund George KingJohn KingNo EntryNo Entry
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Salome (Rose) King? RoseNo Entry
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Emily Florella (Blish) KingAristarchus BlishAaron BlishDavid Blish, (***)
Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
Roxanna (Webster) Blish? Webster
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Nancy Cornelia (Merriam) BlishAsahel MerriamNo Entry
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Phebe (Osborne) Merriam? Osborne
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Personalized History Timeline, 1876 to 1976
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 25
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 3
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 2
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from before birth until age 0
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from before birth until age 2
1876:
American Centennial at age 0
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 0
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 0
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 0
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 1 to age 4
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 1
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 2
1879:
Zulu war at age 3
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 3
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 5 to age 9
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 5
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 5
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 5 to age 20
1884:
1st subway at age 8
1884:
Motorcycle at age 8
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 9 to age 12
1885:
Automobile at age 9
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 10
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 11
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 12
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 12
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 13 to age 16
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 13
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 13
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 13
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 13
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 13
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 14
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 14
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 14
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 14
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 15
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 17 to age 20
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 17
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 17
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 17 to age 21
1893:
Movies at age 17
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 18 to age 19
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 18
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 20
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 20
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 21 to age 25
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 22
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 23 to age 26
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 23 to age 47
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 24
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 24
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 24
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 25
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 25
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 25
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 25
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 25 to age 34
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 25 to age 32
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 25
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 25
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 27
1903:
Airplane at age 27
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 28 to age 29
1904:
Radar at age 28
1907:
Plastic at age 31
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 31
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 32
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 33
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 33 to age 36
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 33
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 34
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 34
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 34 to age 60
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 35
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 36
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 36
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 36
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 36
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 37 to age 44
1914:
The Bra at age 38
1914-1919:
World War I from age 38 to age 43
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 39
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 40
1916:
Sonar at age 40
1917:
US enters WWI at age 41
1917:
Russian revolution at age 41
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 42 to age 57
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 42 to age 44
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 43
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 43
1920:
Palestine established at age 44
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 44
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 44 to age 53
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 45 to age 48
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 46
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 49
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 49 to age 52
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 50
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 51
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 51
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 52
1928:
Video Recordings at age 52
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 52
1928:
Television at age 52
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 53
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 53 to age 63
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 53 to age 56
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 54
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 55 to age 57
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 57
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 57
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 57
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 57 to age 69
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 58
1935:
Dustbowl at age 59
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 59 to age 60
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 60 to age 76
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 60
1936:
Helicopter at age 60
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 60
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 61
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 61 to age 69
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 62
1939:
Digital Computer at age 63
1939-1945:
World War II from age 63 to age 69
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 63
1940:
Color Television at age 64
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 64
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 65 to age 69
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 66
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 66
1945:
United Nations formed at age 69
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 69
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 69 to age 76
1945:
Hypertext at age 69
1946:
The Bikini at age 70
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 70 until after line end
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 71
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 71
1947:
Transistor at age 71
1948:
NATO formed at age 72
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 72
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 72
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 72
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 73
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 73
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 73
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 74
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 74
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 74 to age 77
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 74 to age 78
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 75
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 76 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 76
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 77 to age 84
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 78
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 79
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 79
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 79
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 79
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 80
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 81
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 82
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 82
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 82
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 82
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 83
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 83
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 83
1960:
Pantyhose at age 84
1960:
Laser at age 84
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 84
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 84
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 85
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 85
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 85 to age 87
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 85 to age 94
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 86
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 86 to age 89
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 87
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 87
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 87 to age 92
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 87
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 88 to age 99
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 88
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 89
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 89
1966:
8-track tape players at age 90
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 90
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 91
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 91 to age 94
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 91
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 91
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 91
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 92
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 92
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 93 to age 98
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 93
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 93
1970:
Microprocessor at age 94
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 94
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 95
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 95
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 97
1973:
The Internet at age 97
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 98 to age 100
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 98
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 99
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 99
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 99
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 100
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 100
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 100
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 100

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